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100			_aRumble, Greville
245		0	_aPolitics of nuclear defence
260			_aCambridge
260			_bPolity Press
260			_c1985
300			_a285 p.
520			_aThis book provides an integrated and factual account of the role which the production and organization of nuclear weaponry has played, and is playing, in defence policies. The author charts out the emergence and progressive development of nuclear arms - indicating in a cogent and incisive fashion how these have come to play a pivotal part in defence planning in the United Kingdom, in the West more generally, and in Eastern Europe. The result is a textbook on nuclear defence debates which is unrivalled in its clarity and its comprehensiveness. The Politics of Nuclear Defence presents a large amount of information, in a highly accessible fashion, on the following topics: the development of nuclear weapons, their delivery systems, and defensive systems since 1945 Soviet and US nuclear strategy the British independent nuclear deterrent the dynamics of the arms race the effects of nuclear war civil defence the legality of nuclear weapons the morality of nuclear war and deterrence nuclear disarmament and arms control non-nuclear defence Anyone wanting to acquire general a understanding of the nuclear arms race will find this book unrivalled. Although the author is clearly sympathetic to the need to call a halt to the Arms Race, he sets out the arguments involved in dispassionate and compelling a fashion, allowing the reader to come to an independent assessment of the current debate on nuclear defence policies.
650			_aNuclear warfare
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